May 13, 2010

So I download the Steam .dmg to my Mac, copy Steam over to /Applications, try to run it, and promptly get:

Steam requires that Steam.app/Contents/MacOS be created on a case-insensitive file system, with read-write access.

Wut!?

Why!?

(I mean, why couldn’t they have ported the thing properly and made sure the paths/file names in the code were all lower case or something?)

You know—there are people who like case-sensitive file systems because it forces them to be more careful with how they code. You know—not every file system is like, FAT32 where “readme.txt”, “README.TXT” and “ReadMe.tXt” all refer to the same file!

The last line will require you to enter your administrator password. I just added that in courtesy of Josh Anderson’s own post. Without that other symbolic link, it seems Steam will have trouble finding the content/games it’s already downloaded.